5 hidden features windows 10

The new Timeline feature is essentially a way for people to better locate specific files, photos, or videos on their PCs.

People can use the service to scroll through a list of their past activities going back to a day or even weeks. Customers will see their activities grouped in hour-long chunks each day, so they can more easily find the emails or files they may have sent during those time periods

The Focus Assist feature is basically an easier way for people to turn off app notifications during specific times during the work day.

“Much of this time is spent on social media, where the constant stream of distractions across our myriad of devices makes it hard to focus,” Microsoft said in a corporate blog post on the feature. “With this update, we’re introducing Focus Assist to help you stay in the zone.

Not all scaling efforts meet with success. Windows 10 has had a scaling option that, for example, increases the size of fonts and icons on high-resolution displays. This lets you can read text without squinting while keeping your display at its native resolution where its image is at its crispest and sharpest. Sometimes, however, this scaling can lead to blurriness. Now, you can let Windows attempt to rectify a blurry scaling result. Go to Settings > System > Display > Advanced scaling settings and toggle on Let Windows try to fix apps so they're not blurry

When you encounter an unresponsive app, your likely reflex is to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, launch the Task Manager, select your troublesome app and click End Task. That still works but following Microsoft's move to pack more features and functionality into the Settings app, you can now use it to quit out of apps that have frozen. Head to Settings > Apps > Apps & features, find the bad app on the list, click Advanced options and then click the Terminate button